# Research run 2026-08-25T08:49 UTC ## What changed - NVDA +1% pre-market to ~$210.7 after seven straight down days; options price only a 5.4% (~$280B) move on the print, which lands Wed after the US close = Thu ~6:30am AEST, the smallest implied swing in 3 years, so the bar is 'beat and raise'. - MU +1.7% pre-market ($925.80) as Lynx Equity called Monday's CXMT/Apple selloff an overreaction; SK hynix's union rejected its wage deal by 25 votes but shares still closed +0.4% and both sides go back to the table, no strike talk. - Asia and Europe steadied: TSMC Taipei +1.05% (TAIEX +0.9%), Nikkei +0.6%, Kospi +0.7%, STOXX 600 +0.3% after Bessent's Iran 'economic onslaught' stopped short of actual penalties; US futures green (Nasdaq 100 +0.6%), TSM ADR +0.9% pre-market. - META +0.6% pre-market ($562) after The Information reported the Hatch consumer AI agent launches within weeks with a tiered paid plan and the 'Watermelon' model targeted for October; the California teen-addiction trial enters week 2. BABA HK +1.5% but the ADR is -1.25% pre-market. - Kospi reversed a 4% intraday plunge to close +0.7% at 6,743; SK hynix ended +0.4% in Seoul (KRW 1,678,000) after a 4.5% morning drop on the union vote, and the SKHY ADR is +2.3% pre-market at $159 with Needham lifting its target to $220. - Siemens Energy is +1.8% at EUR 151.45 while its supervisory board meets on the Goldman-run steam-turbine stake sale; no decision or ad-hoc release had been published as of 08:45 UTC, so the binary catalyst is still live into the European close. - Risk appetite is recovering into Nvidia: S&P/Nasdaq futures +0.3%/+0.5%, Europe higher as Iran sanction threats fizzle (Brent ~$92, -2%), Nvidia +1% pre-market after a seven-day losing streak, and Bloom Energy +5% pre-market on Nancy Pelosi's disclosed $3-4M purchase. ## Market summary Asia closed better than it opened: the Kospi swung from -4% intraday to +0.7% (6,743) as Samsung and SK hynix buybacks absorbed foreign selling, the Nikkei rose 0.5% to 65,856, the Taiex closed +0.9%, the ASX 200 gained 0.7% to 9,165 after the RBA held rates, and the Hang Seng finished flat at 25,511 (CATL -2.7% to HK$621) after Monday's Alibaba-led rout. Europe is modestly higher mid-session (DAX +0.3% at ~26,237, Euro Stoxx 50 +0.3%, FTSE +0.1%) as US-Iran sanction threats fizzle and Brent slips ~2% to about $92, while US futures point to a rebound (S&P +0.3%, Nasdaq 100 +0.5%) with Nvidia +1% pre-market at ~$210.7 after closing -2.9% at $208.48, its seventh straight decline. The setup into Nvidia's print (Wed after the US close, Thu 7am AEST) is nervous but de-risked: consensus looks for ~$92B of quarterly revenue and ~$104-105B Q3 guidance, and options imply a roughly $280B (~5.5%) market-cap swing, which will set the tone for SK hynix, Broadcom, Teradyne and Astera Labs. July PCE also lands Wednesday US time with core running 3.3% YoY and the last Fed minutes keeping a hike on the table, and Chair Warsh's first Jackson Hole speech on Friday (Sat morning AEST) is the week's other binary; the 10-year is near 4.7%, so a hot PCE or hawkish Warsh would hit long-duration growth names hardest. ## Holdings - AMZN: hold @ $262.83 - Flat pre-market ($262.83) after closing Aug 24 at $262.07 (+1.3%) with the P/E near a decade low and AWS growing 37%; the reported 'Tetromino' plan for AI-automated delivery stations (2.5x throughput, pilot in 2028) is a long-dated margin lever, but the $220B capex plan, Bezos selling and state antitrust suits keep a lid on the multiple, so hold rather than chase. - AXOS: hold @ $96.94 - No new catalysts since the 10-K; Benchmark's Aug 13 target hike to $120 (Buy) on above-peer growth and 17% ROE supports continuing to hold at ~$97. - BABA: watch @ $116.99 - The record HK$80B ($10.2B) placement at a 3.6% discount (~3.7% dilution) and Michael Burry's full exit keep pressure on the ADR, which is indicated -1.25% pre-market at $116.99 even though Hong Kong shares rose 1.5% to HK$114.20 on Tuesday for a second day of stabilization; insider buying is encouraging, but wait for the stock to base before adding. - ENPH: watch @ $37.73 - Bouncing 1.5% pre-market to $37.73 after a 3.7% drop on Aug 24 with no fundamental catalyst; the AI assistant and IQ Battery C80 commercial launches are incremental, so stay on the sidelines until residential demand stabilizes. - FIGR: hold @ $38.71 - Quiet tape ($38.71 pre-market after $38.64 close) after the Q2 beat and Bernstein's reiterated Buy; no new material news, so hold and let marketplace volume execution play out. - GOOGL: add @ $348.5 - Shares rose 0.9% to $348.06 on Aug 24 ($348.50 pre-market) as Google Cloud announced a strategic Gemini Enterprise partnership with Verizon, another proof point for Cloud's +82% growth, and a Nikkei report that all Pixel production leaves China by 2027 trims tariff risk; the post-Jeff-Dean dip remains a reasonable entry. - LDI: trim @ $0.891 - Stock is stuck at $0.89, below the $1 NYSE threshold, with Goldman at Sell and a $1 target; exchange-compliance and dilution risk argue for reducing exposure. - META: hold @ $562.25 - Up 1.7% to $559.02 on Aug 24 and another 0.6% pre-market ($562.25) after The Information reported the Hatch consumer AI agent launches within weeks with a tiered paid plan and the 'Watermelon' model in October, a first real step to monetizing AI beyond ads; but the $942M New Mexico liability, the California teen-addiction trial (now in week 2) and $125-145B capex keep the stock ~29% off its high, so hold pending trial clarity. - MRVL: hold @ $234.0 - Rebounding 2% pre-market to $234.00 after falling 3.3% on Aug 24 with the SOX; Wells Fargo lifted its target to $310, options imply a ~12% move on Thursday's print (Fri ~6:30am AEST) against consensus of ~$2.71B revenue and $0.93 EPS, and with the stock up ~160% YTD the bar is high, so hold through the report. - MU: hold @ $925.8 - Up 1.7% pre-market to $925.80 after Monday's 5.8% drop on the CXMT/YMTC-for-Apple report, which Lynx Equity called an overreaction (CXMT is qualified only for one low-volume Mac and has poor LPDDR5X yields); SK hynix's union rejecting its wage deal by 25 votes adds a small supply-side wrinkle at a rival, HBM remains sold out through 2027, but expect volatility through Nvidia's print. - NFLX: add @ $79.86 - Edged up 0.5% to $80.01 on Aug 24 (flat pre-market at $79.86) and is showing relative strength in Communication Services; an ads-leadership reshuffle (VP of ads product Jon Whitticom departing) is worth watching but does not change the thesis, and at ~37% below the 52-week high with ad-tier and bundling optionality the valuation reset remains an add opportunity. - NVDA: hold @ $210.67 - Indicated +1% pre-market at $210.67 after a seventh straight decline to $208.48; options price only a 5.4% (~$280B) move on the Aug 26 report, below the 12-quarter average of 7.4%, which says positioning is calm rather than panicked, and with consensus near $92-94B revenue and ~$2.08-2.13 EPS at ~24x forward the stock needs a clean beat-and-raise on guidance, so hold and reassess after the print. - OPENAI: hold - Alabama's AG subpoenaed OpenAI and 15 state AGs demanded it halt internal cyber evaluations after an unreleased cyber model breached Hugging Face, and Altman now concedes he overestimated the speed of AI disruption (AGI pushed to end-2028), adding regulatory and adoption-pace risk; private, so hold but monitor the probe. Marked at 5.43x cost: latest valuation ~$852B (2026-08) vs ~$157B at entry (https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/openai-reportedly-completed-a-7-billion-employee-tender-offer/). - RKT: hold @ $14.09 - Rose 1.2% to $14.09 after the FTC settled its Zillow/Redfin rental-listings case on the morning of trial, removing a legal overhang while letting the Zillow partnership run through 2030; after the earlier ~50% run the shares still look fully priced, so hold. - STRIPE: hold - Beyond the OpenRouter deal, Stripe launched Treasury in Australia and was named a Gartner billing leader; steady expansion with no valuation-changing news, so hold the private position. Marked at 2.27x cost: latest valuation ~$159B (2026-02) vs ~$70B at entry (https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/stripes-valuation-soars-74-to-159-billion/). - TSM: add @ $413.8 - Taipei shares rebounded 1.05% to NT$2,400 on Tuesday (TAIEX +0.9%) and the ADR is +0.9% pre-market at $413.80 after Monday's 2.1% drop; 40%+ 2026 growth guidance, Xiaomi's 3nm Xring and the Sony image-sensor JV underline demand breadth, and the pullback from the June high remains a buying opportunity. ## Watchlist - ALAB:US Astera Labs - accumulate (medium) - Astera Labs sells the connectivity silicon (PCIe/CXL retimers, Scorpio fabric switches, Ethernet) that ties GPUs and XPUs together inside AI racks; Q2 2026 revenue was $392M (+104% YoY, +27% QoQ) with eight straight EPS beats, and Scorpio switches become the largest product line in Q3, a quarter early. Shares are ~45% below their 52-week high, offering exposure to scale-up networking, the fastest-growing layer of AI infrastructure. - AVGO:US Broadcom - accumulate (medium) - Broadcom is the leading custom AI accelerator (XPU) and AI networking supplier to hyperscalers, guiding Q3 FY26 AI semiconductor revenue to ~$16B (>200% YoY) and total revenue to $29.4B (+84%), with a stated path to >$100B of AI revenue in 2027. The stock is ~23% below its June high after the July semiconductor selloff, giving a better entry into a franchise with multi-year committed custom-silicon programs plus a sticky VMware software annuity. - SKHY:US SK hynix - accumulate (medium) - SK hynix supplies more than half of the world's HBM and just posted record Q2 2026 results: revenue KRW 79.3T (+257% YoY) and operating income KRW 60.5T (+557% YoY) at a 76% operating margin, with HBM4 mass shipments ramping in H2. On Aug 19 it accelerated a KRW 40T buyback-and-cancel program (24.07M shares, 3.3% of the count, executed over ~3 months from Aug 20) and lifted its shareholder-return target to over 50% of FCF, backed by ~KRW 69T of net cash; it is also weighing a first Japanese memory fab (Miyagi), and the July 2026 Nasdaq ADR broadens the investor base. On Aug 25 the Seoul shares reversed a 4.5% morning drop to close +0.4% at KRW 1,678,000 as the buyback and domestic buying absorbed foreign selling and the Kospi swung from -4% to +0.7%; Needham lifted its ADR target to $220 from $200, and the ADR is indicated +2.3% pre-market at ~$159 after closing -4.9% at $155.37 on Aug 24. - 3750:HK CATL - buy (high) - CATL is the world's largest battery maker (~40% global EV battery share) and the clear leader in grid storage: H1 2026 revenue rose 55% to RMB 277B and net profit 42% to RMB 43.3B, with energy storage revenue up 88% to RMB 53B (nearly 20% of sales) as global storage deployments surge. It raised ~$5B in Hong Kong in April, announced a large buyback in July, Moody's moved its A3 outlook to positive in August, and on Aug 25 it agreed to pay RMB 2.56B (~$370M) for a 24.9% stake in Qiyuan Green Power, China's largest heavy-truck battery-swapping operator (1,600+ stations in 208 cities), making CATL the largest shareholder and the dominant player in commercial-vehicle swapping. The stock is little changed at ~HK$632 (-1% on Aug 25), ~20% below its 52-week high, with scale, cost and chemistry (sodium-ion, LFP) advantages competitors cannot match. - BE:US Bloom Energy - accumulate (medium) - Bloom's solid-oxide fuel cells have become a mainstream on-site power solution for AI data centers that cannot wait years for grid interconnects: Q2 2026 revenue jumped 166% to $1.07B with a 33% gross margin, and full-year guidance was raised to $3.9-4.2B revenue and $800-900M non-GAAP operating income. A 2.8 GW Oracle agreement and the Nebius Vineland win show the customer base broadening to hyperscalers and neoclouds, and the new Power Connect deployment system cuts installation time by over 40%. The stock closed +1.3% at $204.02 on Aug 24 and is indicated +5.2% pre-market at ~$214.70 after Nancy Pelosi disclosed a first-ever Bloom purchase (about $3-4.25M of stock and options) in a filing that also added to Intel; it remains ~40% off its June high. - ENR:DE Siemens Energy - accumulate (medium) - Siemens Energy is Europe's answer to GE Vernova: gas turbines, grid technologies (transformers, HVDC, switchgear) and wind. Fiscal Q3 2026 (June quarter) orders hit a record EUR 17.9B (book-to-bill 1.57), revenue grew 18.5% comparable to EUR 11.4B, profit before special items more than tripled to EUR 1.62B, pre-tax free cash flow rose to EUR 2.3B and the order backlog reached EUR 162B, with the Grid Technologies backlog alone at a record EUR 51B on transformer demand from US data centers; FY26 guidance was confirmed toward the upper end of the 10-12% margin range and Siemens Gamesa posted its first positive quarter in 15. Bloomberg reported on Aug 24 that the company has engaged Goldman Sachs to sell a stake in the steam-turbine business, the first concrete portfolio move, and on Aug 25 the supervisory board is meeting to deliberate on that multi-billion-euro division sale and a broader separation; German press (Investing.com Deutsch, Der Aktionär, T-Online) frames the board as discussing, not yet announcing, and no ad-hoc release had been published as of 08:45 UTC. Shares have bounced 1.8% to EUR 151.45 (market cap ~EUR 127B, analyst consensus target ~EUR 197) after Monday's 3% drop, still ~21% below the EUR 191.66 52-week high. - GEV:US GE Vernova - accumulate (high) - GE Vernova is the key bottleneck supplier of gas turbines and grid equipment for the AI power buildout: Q2 2026 orders rose 88% organically to $24.2B, total backlog is ~$176B, the gas turbine backlog reached 116 GW (targeting 125 GW under contract by year-end), and H1 free cash flow of $5.1B already exceeded all of 2025. Capacity is being scaled from 20 GW/yr today to 24 GW in 2028 and 30 GW in 2030 with pricing power rising; the stock is ~21% below its 52-week high after a Q2 EPS miss. - HOOD:US Robinhood Markets - accumulate (medium) - Robinhood posted record Q2 2026 revenue of $1.31B (+32% YoY) with a 57% adjusted EBITDA margin and $573M net income, while Gold subscribers hit 4.8M and margin, credit card and banking balances all set records. It is compounding into a full-stack retail financial platform (brokerage, crypto, banking, prediction markets, tokenization via Rothera/WonderFi), and the Clarity Act plus the crypto rally are near-term tailwinds; shares are ~30% off their 52-week high. After a 13% surge last week on crypto-regulation clarity and a bitcoin rally, the stock gave back 4.2% to $103.62 on Aug 24 as traders took profits and debated whether clearer crypto rules compress trading spreads; it is indicated +2.4% pre-market at ~$106 with bitcoin steady near $64.7K. - MELI:US MercadoLibre - accumulate (medium) - MercadoLibre is Latin America's dominant e-commerce, logistics and fintech platform. Q2 2026 revenue grew 49.8% to $10.17B, its fastest growth in four years and 30th straight quarter above 30%, unique active buyers rose to 89M (+18M YoY), the Mercado Pago credit book grew 75% to $16.4B with a deliberate shift to lower-risk borrowers, and adjusted EPS of $9.19 beat consensus. The stock fell to ~$1,813 after the print on margin compression and has recovered to ~$1,948, still ~24% below its 52-week high, giving an entry into a non-US Internet compounder with a logistics-plus-payments moat comparable to Sea's. - NET:US Cloudflare - buy (high) - Cloudflare's growth is re-accelerating on AI: Q2 2026 revenue rose 36% to $696M, dollar-based net retention improved 6 points to 120%, large customers grew 27% to 4,698, and full-year guidance was lifted to $2.86-2.87B. Its global edge network is the natural control point for agentic and bot traffic (non-human traffic now >50%), and Workers/AI inference give it a second growth engine beyond security and CDN. Shares fell 4.4% to $280.35 on Aug 24 in a software/cloud selloff (Datadog -3%, Nebius -4% as its $5B convertible settled) with no company-specific news, which we read as a better entry rather than a change in the story; consensus target is ~$334. - SE:US Sea Limited - buy (high) - Sea grew Q2 2026 revenue 48% to $7.8B with all three engines firing: Shopee GMV +28% to $38.3B (ad revenue +70%, eight straight quarters of sequential growth), Monee fintech revenue +59% with an $11.1B loan book (+62%) at 1.0% NPLs, and Garena gaming still growing. The stock is ~40% below its 52-week high at ~$116 while consensus targets sit near $155, an unusual growth-at-a-discount setup for a Southeast Asian platform with a widening logistics and payments moat. - SPOT:US Spotify Technology - accumulate (medium) - Spotify crossed 300M Premium subscribers in Q2 2026 (MAU +12% to 777M) with revenue +14% to EUR 4.8B, a record 33.4% gross margin and EUR 655M operating income, and just added $1.5B to its buyback. Pricing power, audiobooks/video podcasts and AI features (Personal Podcasts) plus the Reserved ticketing product extend the monetization runway on a subscriber base no rival can match. - 6861:JP Keyence Corp - buy (high) - Keyence is the picks-and-shovels supplier of machine vision, sensors and measurement systems for factory automation and the emerging humanoid/robotics supply chain; fiscal Q1 (June 2026 quarter) sales rose 33% to JPY 347B and net income 51% to JPY 139B, with overseas sales +39% (Asia +50%, Americas +31%). Operating margins above 50%, a 95% equity ratio and a direct-sales model with no factories give it one of the most durable moats in industrial tech; shares hit an all-time high in mid-August and have since pulled back ~7% to ~JPY 80,900 (flat on Aug 25 morning, no company news overnight) with the global tech selloff, a better entry. - ASML:US ASML Holding - buy (high) - ASML is the sole supplier of EUV lithography and raised 2026 guidance for the second time to EUR 43-45B of sales at a 54-56% gross margin after a Q2 beat (EUR 9.3B sales, EUR 2.9B net income). Management says EUV capacity for 2027 is essentially fully booked with significant 2028 orders already in hand while it adds ~30% EUV capacity in 2027, giving rare multi-year revenue visibility in semicap. - TER:US Teradyne - accumulate (medium) - Teradyne is the leading supplier of automated test equipment for AI compute and HBM silicon and, via Universal Robots and MiR, the largest Western pure-play in collaborative and mobile robots. Q2 2026 revenue more than doubled to $1.33B (+104% YoY) with gross margin up to 59.8%, operating income up nearly 5x to $441M and EPS of $2.38 vs $0.49 a year ago, while robotics grew 33% to ~$100M; AI-related demand is now roughly 70% of revenue. Shares are ~25% below their 52-week high after the semis selloff, adding physical-AI and semi-test exposure the list lacks. ## Bellwether changes - h100_rental: $2.53/hr index; 1-yr contract $2.35 (Mar-26) vs $1.70 (Oct-25); spot ~$4/bullish -> $2.65/hr index (+1.5% 7d); 1-yr contract $2.35 (Mar-26) vs $1.70 (Oct-25); spot ~$4/bullish ## Calendar changes - 2026-08-27-mrvl-earnings: 2026-08-27 after US close -> 2026-08-27 after US close (13:45 PT / 16:45 ET call) ## New news (13) - 2026-08-25 [neutral] NVDA: Options price a 5.4% (~$280B) Nvidia earnings move, the smallest implied swing in three years - Reuters/ORATS data show options imply a 5.4% move either way after Wednesday's report, below the 12-quarter average of 7.4% and the 6.5% priced ahead of May; ORATS' Matt Amberson called it 'some complacency' and Susquehanna's Chris Murphy said the era of 10-20% post-earnings jumps 'is kind of over'. Focus is on chip demand, margins and hyperscaler capex guidance. NVDA is indicated +1% pre-market at $210.67 after seven straight declines. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/nvidia-shares-set-for-280-billion-price-swing-after-earnings-options-show-4874471> - 2026-08-25 [positive] NVDA: US futures rise ahead of Nvidia as Bessent's Iran 'economic onslaught' stops short of penalties - Treasury Secretary Bessent warned countries to cut Iran ties or lose dollar-system access but imposed no new penalties, so Brent slipped to $91.58 and risk appetite recovered: Dow +0.2%, S&P 500 +0.3%, Nasdaq 100 +0.6% pre-market, STOXX 600 +0.3%. Threatened 50% US tariffs on Canada were deferred several weeks. Jackson Hole starts Thursday with Fed Chair Warsh speaking Friday and July PCE due this week. <https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/us-widens-iran-sanctions-bitcoin-tops-80000--whats-moving-markets-4874596> - 2026-08-25 [neutral] MU: SK hynix union rejects wage deal by 25 votes; shares still close +0.4% as both sides return to talks - Of 15,045 votes (93.8% turnout), 50.08% opposed a tentative deal offering a 6.3% raise and a profit-share bonus paid 40% cash/60% shares; members objected to the stock-heavy structure. Management and the union will resume negotiations, with an industry source expecting a swift settlement rather than escalation, and no strike was mentioned. SK hynix closed +0.42% at KRW1,678,000 after an early drop, with the Kospi +0.7%. Read-through for Micron: rival labor friction is a minor supply-side wrinkle, not a demand signal. <https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10851492> - 2026-08-25 [positive] MU: Lynx Equity calls Micron's CXMT/Apple selloff an overreaction; MU +1.7% pre-market - Lynx's KC Rajkumar argued the report that Apple may source DRAM/NAND from CXMT and YMTC poses little real threat: CXMT is qualified only for one low-volume Mac model, not iPhones, and its poor LPDDR5X yields make it 'structurally incapable' of supplying Apple at scale, while YMTC is not qualified for any Apple product and allocates newer NAND domestically. Micron is indicated +1.7% at $925.80 after Monday's 5.8% drop. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/analyst-calls-mu-sndk-premarket-drop-on-cxmt-apple-report-an-overreaction-4873492> - 2026-08-25 [positive] TSM: TSMC Taipei shares rebound 1.05% as Asia chip stocks steady ahead of Nvidia; ADR +0.9% pre-market - Asian markets recovered from Monday's tech selloff with investors 'more selective' on chips into Nvidia's report: TSMC closed +1.05% at NT$2,400 and the TAIEX +0.9% after hitting a two-week low intraday, Nikkei +0.58%, Kospi +0.68%, Hang Seng -0.08%, Shanghai +0.19%. TSM ADRs are indicated +0.9% at $413.80 after falling 2.1% on Aug 24. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/asian-stocks-fall-as-tech-jitters-iran-sanctions-cloud-nvidia-outlook-4874458> - 2026-08-25 [neutral] BABA: Alibaba Hong Kong shares +1.5% to HK$114.20 in second day of stabilization, but ADR -1.25% pre-market - After Monday's ~10% drop on the HK$80B ($10.2B) placement to fund AI, 9988.HK rose 1.5% to HK$114.20 at Tuesday's close, helped by the chairman and CEO buying HK$120M of shares. The US ADR is nonetheless indicated -1.25% at $116.99, so the stock has not yet built a base. <https://stockanalysis.com/quote/hkg/9988/> - 2026-08-25 [positive] META: Meta to launch 'Hatch' consumer AI agent within weeks, 'Watermelon' model targeted for October - The Information, citing internal documents, reports Meta will release Hatch, the consumer version of its OpenClaw AI agent, as soon as the next several weeks and is targeting October for its next model, Watermelon; Meta has considered tiered pricing for the agent as part of Zuckerberg's push to monetize AI beyond advertising. META is +0.6% pre-market at $562.25 as the California teen-addiction trial enters its second week focused on Instagram's design. <https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plans-launch-hatch-ai-agent-platform-coming-weeks> - 2026-08-25 [positive] ENR: Siemens Energy +1.8% as supervisory board deliberates Goldman-run steam-turbine stake sale; no decision published yet - Shares rose to EUR 151.45 (day range 150.46-152.20) after Bloomberg reported Goldman Sachs has been hired to sell a stake in the steam-turbine unit. German press says the supervisory board is meeting today on the multi-billion-euro division sale and broader separation, but no ad-hoc announcement or press release had appeared on the company's IR or press pages as of 08:45 UTC. Consensus target ~EUR 197; next results Nov 11. <https://www.investing.com/equities/siemens-energy-ag> - 2026-08-25 [positive] SKHY: SK hynix reverses 4.5% morning drop to close +0.4% in Seoul; Kospi swings from -4% to +0.7%; Needham lifts ADR target to $220 - After the union narrowly rejected the tentative wage deal (60% of bonuses in treasury shares), SK hynix fell to KRW 1,594,500 intraday but closed at KRW 1,678,000 as the KRW 40T buyback and domestic buying absorbed foreign selling; the Kospi closed at 6,742.73. Needham raised its SKHY target to $220 from $200, and the ADR is +2.3% pre-market at ~$159 after a 4.9% drop to $155.37 on Aug 24. Management and the union return to the bargaining table. <https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/skhy/> - 2026-08-25 [positive] BE: Bloom Energy +5% pre-market after Nancy Pelosi discloses first-ever Bloom purchase - A congressional filing shows Pelosi bought roughly $3-4.25M of Bloom Energy stock and options (up to $13.5M combined with Intel), her first Bloom trade, and retail traders bid the stock to ~$214.70 pre-market from a $204.02 close. Coverage ties the buy to the AI power boom; a class action (lead-plaintiff deadline Sep 28) remains a background risk. <https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/be/> - 2026-08-24 [negative] NET: Cloudflare -4.4% to $280.35 in software/cloud selloff; no company news - Cloudflare fell alongside Datadog (-3%) and Nebius (-4%, as its $5B convertible settled) in a broad software and AI-infrastructure pullback ahead of Nvidia earnings. GuruFocus still rates the shares overvalued after the drop; Wall Street consensus target is ~$334. No change to fundamentals or guidance. <https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/net/> - 2026-08-24 [negative] HOOD: Robinhood -4.2% to $103.62 as last week's 13% crypto-regulation rally is partly unwound - After surging ~13-15% last week on Trump-driven crypto regulation clarity and a bitcoin move toward $77K, HOOD gave back 4.2% on Aug 24 on profit-taking and debate over whether clearer rules squeeze crypto trading revenue. Bitcoin has since slipped to ~$64.7K but the stock is indicated +2.4% pre-market at ~$106; CEO Tenev continues to push tokenization and prediction markets as the fastest-growing line. <https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/hood/> - 2026-08-25 [neutral] MACRO: Asia rebounds into Nvidia: Kospi +0.7%, Nikkei +0.5%, ASX +0.7%, Taiex +0.9%, Hang Seng flat; Europe and US futures higher as Iran sanction threats fizzle - Nvidia closed -2.9% at $208.48 (seventh straight drop) but is +1% pre-market; options imply a ~$280B swing on Wednesday's print, where consensus looks for ~$92B revenue and ~$104-105B Q3 guidance. July PCE lands the same day (core was 3.3% YoY in June; Fed minutes kept a hike alive) and Chair Warsh gives his first Jackson Hole speech Friday with the 10-year near 4.7%. Brent slipped ~2% to ~$92 as markets shrugged off new US sanctions on Iran. Keyence closed +1.7% at JPY 82,250 and CATL -2.7% at HK$621 with no company news. <https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvda/> ## Notes Scheduled 6h run at 18:40 AEST. Delta pass: Asia/Europe session news, US pre-market, Siemens Energy board outcome, daily-moving bellwethers, calendar additions.
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